The organization works to help service members with the college education process.

About 100 colleges and universities are members of the organization.

Heberling retired as a lieutenant colonel after 21 years of service with the Air Force and logged 1,500 hours flying time in the B-52H Stratofortress Bomber. His last assignment was with the Air Force Institute of Technology at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base in Ohio.

He has served his role at CCME for five years. Heberling holds a master’s degree from the University of Northern Colorado through the GI Bill, and a Ph.D. from Michigan State University through an Air Force-sponsored doctoral program.